New 'Bushwick Crew' indictment charges five new suspects in bloody Brooklyn/Queens drug gang

Gary Lopez (left) and Rudy Superville were allegedly murdered by members of the Bushwick Crew in 2013. (Handout)

Members of a brutal drug gang dubbed the “Bushwick Crew” tortured, killed and torched the corpses of two armed bandits captured during a botched heroin heist, authorities charged Friday.

The 2013 double-murder typified the cold-blooded operations of the gang accused in a superseding Brooklyn Federal Court indictment with operating a violent multimillion-dollar heroin ring in Brooklyn and Queens.

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“Not only are these gang members pushing deadly drugs in our most vulnerable communities, they’re allegedly killing rivals and bystanders in their attempts to maintain power and control,” said FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William Sweeney Jr. of the New York office.

The new 19-count indictment added five new defendants to the charges already brought against four other alleged gangsters — including the horrific March 5, 2013, executions of Gary Lopez and Ruby Superville after their attempt to rob a “Crew” stash house went wildly wrong.

The dealer inside the location with one kilo of heroin and $150,000 cash managed to grabbed his gun and shoot the two bandits, court papers said.

Five of the defendants were then summoned to the apartment where the wounded pair were held — with the desperate Lopez at one point managing a fruitless call to 911, begging for help. Lopez was finally shot in the head, and Superville fatally stabbed.

The two men were beaten, tortured, shot, stomped and shot by the sadistic suspects, who then drenched the bodies in gasoline before setting them ablaze in a remote Queens field, prosecutors charged.

The five new defendants were affiliated with a violent street gang dubbed the “Young Gunners” and took on a variety of menacing tasks. The gun-toting suspects would “protect and escort the head drug traffickers of the Bushwick Crew, collected and enforced drug debts, and shot and killed to retaliate those who offended the Crew.”

Goodwin was accused in the Aug. 18, 2012 Brooklyn street shooting of Donte Williams in an effort to boost his profile within the gang, prosecutors charged. And Griem was accused in the September 2014 murder of Kelvin Johnson after opening fire during a wild melee inside a club.

Authorities recovered nearly $1 million in drug money along with more than 10 kilos of heroin, multiple kilos of fentanyl and a fleet of high-priced exotic cars including a Lamborghini Huracan and a Rolls-Royce Ghost, court papers indicated.

Defendants Cooper, Griem and Brown were held without bail at a Brooklyn Federal Court arraignment where they pleaded not guilty to the charges of racketeering conspiracy, murder, kidnapping, robbery and heroin distribution. They were due back in court on Sept. 14.